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The True Bounds of Christian Freedom
The true bounds of Christian freedom or a treatise wherein the rights of the law are vindicated, the liberties of grace maintained, and the several late opinions against the law are examined and confuted. Whereunto is annexed a discourse of the learned John Cameron's, touching the threefold covenant of God with man, / faithfully translated, by Samuel Bolton minister of the word of God at Saviours-Southwark.The true bounds of Christian freedome or a treatise wherein the rights of the law are vindicated, the liberties of grace maintained, and the severall late opinions against the law are examined and confuted. Whereunto is annexed a discourse of the learned Iohn Camerons, touching the threefold covenant of God with man, / faithfully translated, by Samuel Bolton minister of the word of God at Saviours-Southwark.
London: printed by J.L. for Philemon Stephens, 1645
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1. There is a peace which flows from the witness-bearing of our conscience in our integrity and exact walking, such a peace as Hezekiah had when he said, Lord remember how I have walked before thee in sincerity — and Paul had the same, 1 Thes. 2.4, 5, 6. Rom. 1.9. and that peace we may sin away, when we fall into fresh sin, the comforts of our former walking will not bear us up.
1. There is a peace which flowes from the witnes-bearing of our conscience in our integrity and exact walking, such a peace as Hezekiah had when he said, Lord remember how I have walked before thee in sinceritie — and Paul had the same, 1 Thes. 2.4, 5, 6. Rom. 1.9. and that peace we may sinne away, when wee fall into fresh sin, the comforts of our former walking will not beare us up.
2. There is a peace which flows from the souls Communion and converses with God in duty. There is peace as well as sweetness in every piece of holiness, and this peace a man may sin away. All that sweetness and adaptation of spirit in duty is now gone upon fresh revolts into sin, and now the soul formerly comforted, is interrupted and disturbed in all its approaches and converses with him.
2. There is a peace which flowes from the souls Communion and converses with God in dutie. There is peace as well as sweetnesse in every peice of holinesse, and this peace a man may sinne away. All that sweetnesse and adaptation of spirit in duty is now gone upon fresh revolts into sin, and now the soul formerly comforted, is interrupted and disturbed in all its approaches and converses with him.